"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?"
"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul."
"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Exc..."
"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire."
"We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitab..."
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."
"A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."
"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked"